Not defending Martin, but Zimmerman's a piece of shit human being himself. He just happened to have a weapon when his trying to bully Martin backfired. He defending himself, and rightfully sow. But he's a pathetic excuse for a person and since his run in with Trayvon has went on to get himself into shit and prove he's a low life thug.
No doubt - never said GZ was a saint and I probably wouldn't be friends with him, although I think that some of what he has been treated a bit unfairly (GF thing) since people know what they can do to yank him, and the cops, around.
However, I think it's ridiculous for people like the woman who wrote the article, to simplify it down to "ohh our poor kids" when, in fact, he wasn't some innocent child gunned down, he was a fighting thug with a chip on his shoulder. Brown knocked up a store and bullied somebody minutes before. So what does that say?
Even now, you have jackasses like CitizenKain trying to overlook the fact that these kids were troubled. But ohhh no, it's everybody else's fault. Even after everything we found out about Trayvon after the fact, people *STILL* stick to the same "he was a kid" narrative. What the fuck is wrong with people? A goddamn PR expert spun this shit from the beginning, choosing, intentionally, a very old "kid like" picture to spin the shit form the beginning. And then Ben Crump tears it down to race (he started it), lies that GZ was charged with racism (he wasn't), and then spins the whole fucking thing to "well, the defense made this about race" a fucking year after he made it about race.
Enough of this bullshit.